Download or read book Records of the Royal Mint written by Great Britain. Royal Mint and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New History of the Royal Mint written by C. E. Challis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-19 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study traces the development of English minting from the seventh-century to the twentieth-century.
Download or read book When Britain Went Decimal written by Mark Stocker and published by . This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to do so? What changed politicians' and peoples' minds about it in the 1960s? Were Britain's plans to join the EEC influential? What was the impact of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand going decimal several years earlier? Or did it simply happen because of common sense, with a decimal system so much easier to learn and use than pounds, shillings and pence?The route to find the right designs was a complex one, with interfering politicians, struggling artists, and at one stage an angry Duke of Edinburgh! It took over five years to get there, and then there was the seven-sided 50 pence - a design classic we would say today, but what did the media and public think of it when it was launched in 1969?When Britain Went Decimal takes readers through the changeover leading to D-Day (decimalisation day), and beyond: how smooth and successful was the process? Did newspapers secretly hope it would fail? While decimalisation might have seemed right at the time, did it lead to inflation, as many people believe today?Entertainingly written and beautifully illustrated, this first book on decimalisation since 1973 attempts to answer all these questions and more, looking as much at the design - indeed the 'art' behind the new coinage - as at social, economic and political history.
Download or read book Good Money written by George A. Selgin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Enterprise and the Foundation of Modern Coinage
Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on the Royal Mint written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Deputy Master and Comptroller Royal Mint written by Great Britain. Royal Mint and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Objects of War Currency in a Time of Conflict Published in Association with the Royal Mint Museum written by Kevin Clancy and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has shaped currencies, creating, abolishing and moulding them. By providing the means through which they have been fought, coins and banknotes have proved themselves an indispensable weapon of war. But the disruption that comes with conflict has seen usage of money change to cope with extreme circumstances. Coins have frequently been debased or often buried in hoards as an army advances, they have found themselves saving lives on a battlefield or becoming objects of sentiment as a memory of home. As symbols of state, money has offered the means through which victorious leaders have proclaimed their triumphs, evidenced from Roman Emperors through to the more poignant modern ways in which commemoration predominates. | In this new book Kevin Clancy, Director of the Royal Mint Museum, seeks to explore these themes, revealing how something which thrives on stability can adapt when the normal rules of life are turned upside down. Richly illustrated throughout, the book focuses principally on the experience in Britain from Tudor times but draws on other instances from around the world and across time to show how money and war have collided and influenced one another. | It is a fascinating story that will be as engaging to those with an interest in military history as much as to those of us with more than a passing interest in money.
Download or read book The Royal Mint Its Working Conduct and Operations Fully and Practically Explained with Suggestions for Its Better Scientific and Official Management Illustrated Etc written by George Frederick ANSELL and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Mint written by Great Britain. Royal Mint and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Coins Tokens Medals Dies and Seals in the Museum of the Royal Mint written by Great Britain. Royal Mint and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint written by Great Britain. Royal Mint and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Mint written by G. P. Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Royal Mint written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Royal Mint and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Mint written by George Frederick Ansell and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Newton and the Counterfeiter written by Thomas Levenson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters, a man who not only got away with faking His Majesty's coins (a crime that the law equated with treason), but was trying to take over the Mint itself. But Chaloner had no idea who he was taking on. Newton pursued his enemy with the cold, implacable logic that he brought to his scientific research. Set against the backdrop of early eighteenth-century London with its sewers running down the middle of the streets, its fetid rivers, its packed houses, smoke and fog, its industries and its great port, this dark tale of obsession and revenge transforms our image of Britain's greatest scientist.
Download or read book Report written by Great Britain. Royal Mint and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Coins and Tokens in the Museum of the Royal Mint written by England. Royal Mint and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
